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Gabriel Teodros is a hip hop artist and a member of the groups Abyssinian Creole and CopperWire. He is of Ethiopian, Scottish, Irish & Native American descent, and was raised on Beacon Hill, Seattle, Washington. Teodros’ music is determined by a social consciousness that tackles issues such as sexism, racism and homophobia, with constant references to his engagement towards the Third World issues due to his Ethiopian background. He was a catalyst in the surge of dynamic underground rap acts from the Pacific Northwest during the first decade of the 2000s.<\/p>\n
In January 2012, Teodros released\u00a0Colored People’s Time Machine<\/i>, his first full-length solo album since\u00a0Lovework<\/a><\/i>.\u00a0Colored People’s Time Machine<\/i>\u00a0was recorded in Seattle and Brooklyn,\u00a0and is a multi-lingual, multi-genre album that featured vocal, instrumental, and production collaborations with 20 different artists. On it, he explored themes of love (Goodnight<\/i>, a brief interlude on a long-distance relationship), cultural identity (Blossoms of Fire<\/i>), personal identity (Alien Native<\/i>, a biographical tale), the concept of home (Diaspora\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Beit<\/i>), loss (Ella Mable Bright<\/i>, a tribute to his grandmother featuring\u00a0Meklit Hadero<\/a>), music (Colored People\u2019s Time Machine<\/i>, and Sun and Breeze<\/i>, also featuring Meklit Hadero and Amos Miller), and the music industry (You A Star<\/i>, on which he warns about the pitfalls of the industry and the danger of buying into the illusion of stardom). Other guests on the album include Mexico City’s\u00a0Bocafloja<\/a>, Los Angeles emcee SKIM, and Palestinian wordsmith Sabreena Da Witch.<\/p>\n [youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jvpgggGYtW4[\/youtube]<\/p>\n